USA experience re registration
Just back from USA, visited a gun shop or two.
It seems there’s pretty tight registration when buying from a gun shop who are audited in depth by the ATF auditors.
There’s a four page (double sided) form that has to be filled in with meticulous accuracy.
The selling/buying by private individuals is not scrutinized any any way that I can see although a form is available for owners to register their firearms for insurance purposes etc.
USA experience re registration
Yes, had a visa to live and work. 5 years. However you had to be in country for 8 or 9 consecutive months to be able to purchase. Go back to Oz or out of country on work, clock restarted.
However you could go and purchase at a gun show and bypass fbi check as only applied to gun dealers and not private sales I believe.